Nicholas

“If we look back into history for the character of present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practised it on one another. The first Protestants of the Church of England, blamed persecution in the Roman church, but practised it against the Puritans: these found it wrong in the Bishops, but fell into the same practice themselves both here and in New England.

[Letter to the London Packet, 3 June 1772]”
― ben franklin, The Life and Letters of Benjamin Franklin

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
― Franz Kafka

“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde